DOT Desk: The export of furniture is getting a boost as it accounted for $33.72 million during the first six months (July-December) of the current fiscal year (FY19), which is 40.56 per cent higher than that of the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, reports The Financial Express. The export of furniture during the July-December…
Reuters: The euro rose above $1.16 yesterday as the dollar’s recent rally ran out of steam, and traders said solid data out of China had calmed investor nerves about recent Sino-U.S. trade tensions, hurting demand for the dollar. The dollar has weakened since hitting a three-week high on Monday, when the prospect of a full-blown trade…
Straits Times: The trial of two women accused of murdering the North Korean leader’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam was adjourned on Monday (Jan 28) until March, and the case will now drag on until at least mid-2019. Siti Aisyah from Indonesia and Doan Thi Huong from Vietnam have been on trial since October 2017,…
DOT Desk: The construction work of 13.48-kilometre long road at Taka 6.5 crore has been started in Hakimpur Upazila of the district, reports The Daily Observer. Executive Engineer of Local Government Engineering Department in Dinajpur Md Khalilur Rahman said under the construction work, the road will be made pucca from Khattamadhabpur to Mongla border area…
Marilyn Thipthorpe Know how long a plastic water bottle can take to decompose? Up to 1000 years. Know how many bottles of water America alone drinks in a single year? approximately 50 billion. Scared yet? You should be, because unless we start firing our garbage out of giant cannons and into the sun, it’s safe…
Hossen Sohel: President Trump’s plans for a Veterans Day military parade through the streets of Washington DC have been delayed until at least 2019, reports BBC. Mr Trump was impressed by France’s Bastille Day parade on a visit in 2017 and said the US could “top it”. But figures released on Thursday suggested the event…
UNB A man was beaten to death over a loan of Tk 15,000 his brother-in-law taken from a local moneylender in Sujanagar upazila in the district on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Kashi Nath Halder, 50, son of Sannashi Halder of Bhabanipur in the upazila.
Rubya Tripty The High Court on Monday has directed the hospitals and clinic to release dead body of poor and destitute people even if the family failed to pay treatments and hospital costs and create a fund to help poor and marginalized people. The high court bench of justice comprising Syed Muhammad Dastagir Husain and…
Reuters: A Munich-based start-up has taken advantage of the strong Bavarian sun this summer to test the final development of the charging system of its Sion car, an all-electric solar vehicle that lets you charge as you drive. Germany will likely miss its target of putting 1 million electric cars on the road by 2020…
Hossen Sohel of DOT The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami have adopted lies and violence as voters have rejected them in the election, says the Awami League, reports bdnews24.com. “The BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami alliance realised their defeat is confirmed and are therefore choosing terror and violence. At least five leaders and activists of the Awami League have…